3Zo A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



peace, in which France ceded to the crown of Eng- 

 land, Placencia the capital of Newfoundland, and the 

 whole iiland, this peninfula was alfo included, a fug- 

 geftion which the court of England owed to its inhabi- 

 tants, who be^ng generally proteflants, reafonably pro- 

 mifed themfclves more freedom under a fovercign of 

 their own religion. IVlany pans of that peninfula be- 

 longed to the inhabitants of Louifbourg, who became 

 deprived of them by this treaty : and among them one, 

 concerning which there feems to have been a difpute, 

 whether it was to be included in Acadia or not. But 

 the inhabitants ftrongly infiiling on the affirmative, and 

 the king of England fupporting their plea, France 

 was obliged to give up the point, and confent to its 

 being reckoned a part of the peninfula. The owner of 

 this parcel of land, however, who was one of the moft 

 confiderable' inhabitants of Lou'ibourg, defirous of 

 recovering fo valuable a part of his poiiefiicns, and 

 availing himfelf of the prefent war, laid before the 

 niiniftry of France his icheme for the conqueft of ir, 

 without any charge to the king, with the allowance 

 only of a body of troops from the garrifon -, fetting 

 forth the great advantage which would refult from it 

 to the French inrereft in thefe parrs. The miniitry 

 entered into his viewsj a commiiiion was fent him for 

 the expedition, accompanied with an order for furniih- 

 ing him with the number of regulars he had re- 

 quired. 



The country in queftion litde apprehending any 

 invafion, was totally unprovided witli the m.eans of 

 defence, fo that after litde or no reíTiítance, it was 

 taken poíícíTion of by the former owner, who, with the 

 body of regulars and adventurers that had attended 

 him, returned in triumph to Louiibourg. In the 

 mean time, the clamours not only of the fuffcrers, 

 who had been the immediate objeól of this ad of 

 violence, but of ail the inhabitants of Acadia, reached 

 the ears of the governor and other powerful perfons of 



Büílon, 



